Smyrna times., 1887-08-17

1t IS said that on Sunday evening at
the Penrose camp there was consider
able lighting on account of the large
amount of whisky dispensed, There
will be some trouble over the whiskev
selling, as the liquor was sold out of
jug taVerns" and the United States
officials have taken the matter in hand
fiery fluid.
The committee on reunion of the
Delaware Legislature of 1887 have
decided to hold the reunion in Will
mingtOn at the Clayton House on the
evening preceding the opening of the
constitutional celebration in Philadel-
phla. The next day the entire body
will go to Philadelphia and attend the
exercises. 1t is the intention if it can be
SO arranged to have the members par
ticipate as body.
Robert H. Davis, of Milford, the
president of the Democratic convention
last year,is very i'll with complication
ofdiseases. For two weeks he has been
unable to leave his bed. During the
very hot weather of two weeks ago he
was overcome by the heat, and after
wards very carelessly took cold water
bath of an hours duration. This with
kidney and heart troubles is the causes
of his present illness.
The Georgetown Journal says: The
amount of sickness in this town and
vicinity is simply alarming. Whole
families are down with chills and with
malarial fever, which, in some cases,
rapidly develops into typhoid. One
physician has between seventy and
eighty patients, and all are riding
night and day. There must be on the
whole over 200 sick people in this
immediate neighbOrhOOd.
DELAWARE AT THE CELEBRATION
Governor Biggs and General Kenney
visited Philadelphia on Saturday last
and fixed upon the Girard House as
Delaware's headquarters during the
Centennial celebration. The gov
ernOr and his staff will take rooms at
this hostelrie on September IA. The
military will be taken charge of by the
Philadelphia National Guard, and will
likely, find accommodation in one of
the amories, thus Obviating the necessi-
ty of transporting tents.
BIG THURSDAY AT BOWERS Thurs
day was big Thursday at Bowers Beach
and there were from 5000 to 5000 per-
sons present. 1t is an old custom
among Kent county people to visit this
place the second Thursday in August
in every year and as many as 10000
persons have been present in the past.
The crowd Yesterday while very large
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During political campaigns, this day
is generally utilized by the politicians
of both parties. The people all take
their dinners and suppers with them
and spend the day in social intercourse,
| dancing &c.
FRIGHTFULLY WOUNDED.--The
Morning NeUs of this date contains the
! following:
DOUer, DeI., August 16th.-Henry r..
Martindale. telegraph operator employ
ed at the Hotel Richardson, while on
duty at the railroad station at 4 o'clock
| this afternoon, was frightfully injured
1 by the premature explosion of gun.
/ The shock blew off the thumb and
! fOrefinger of his left hand, lacerated
the muscles and broke the artery of his
right arm and tore his right side. Mar
tindale was about to signal the north
hound passenger train when the gun
went OFT He sat at his instrument,
quivering and bleeding, for a second,
| Sigualled the train and then fell to the
floor. The surgeons say that the in
juries are not necessarily fatal. Young
Martindale is a nephew of the Rev. 7.
+. Martindale.
A REHoBoTH DROwNING.-The first
drowning Ofthe season, and the second
in the history of Reho6Oth, occurred at
$50 o'clock Sunday in front Ofthe Hen
lOpen Hotel: The victim was JacOE
Frenz, chef of the Henlopen. He re
sided in Baltimore, and was for some
time chef in the Grafton, near thai
city.
Frenz' accompanied by the steward
and two walters of the hotel, went in
for a bath Just after dinner. About
$50 the surf was very rough and re-
quired good swimmers to battle with
the heavy waves. FrenZ was large man
not swimmer. A wave struck and
threw him off his feet. He fought
hard for his life, but his inexperiencC
and the waves were too strong for him
At the last moment his friend, who
was an expert swimmer, went to hi
rescue, but the half-drOwned man made
a clutch for his wOuld-be savior, anC
for a while it looked as though the
waves would swallow both. Twice
the steward went to the bottom will
Frenz, and when he came to the sur
face for the last time a strong wav'
broke the death grip. Frenz wen
down and did not appear again.